Democratic Underground Banned From Reddit/Politics Forum

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60. But the list includes Raw Story, which does do news stories

I'll grant that most of the sites listed are discussion boards, aggregators, or magazines. But not all of them are. It looks more like an attempt to limit posts to the mainstream media -- but even that is kind of ridiculous in a politics subreddit.

I do read reddit on a regular basis. You can customize the way it displays so that you get the serious stuff and your own individual interests and leave out the juvenile tripe. I see that right now, there's only one story on my personal page from the politics subreddit -- something about Elizabeth Warren -- which suggests to me that cutting back on sources may affect its popularity.

For whatever it's worth, other current posts there are from sources that include the New York Times, the Guardian, the Friendly Atheist blog, globalresearch.ca, Slate, Vanity Fair, ABC News, Talking Points Memo, the Washington Post, National Journal, The Hill, Daily Beast, MSNBC, and demos.org. That's a distinctly mixed bunch -- and one that seems to overlap heavily with the sources they did ban.

All very strange.